While Biden’s border has become a complete mess, Mexican drug cartels have noticed the shift and are beginning to take full advantage.
Judicial Watch has uncovered that while under Biden’s watch, border security has continued to take a hit and suffer as evidenced by Mexican drug cartels being able to conduct over 9,000 drone incursions into the US airspace in 2021 alone.
In order to complete an investigative report, Judicial Watch has reached out and spoken with a senior within Homeland Security as well as federal officials at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas. The outlet has also gone so far as to file a Freedom of Information Act request with CBP to look into the Mexican drug cartel’s use of drones to survey federal, state, county, as well as city agencies and conduct illegal activities near the border.
More exclusive details from the Judicial Watch report:
Mexican drug cartels have conducted more than 9,000 drone flights into U.S. airspace in the last year to surveil American law enforcement and security operations in the southern border region, a senior Homeland Security official told Judicial Watch this week. The drones are observing federal, state, county, and city agencies near the Mexican border, including the U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard, county sheriffs and local police. The Border Patrol, which operates under Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has captured about a dozen of the drones, and accessed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) guidance and memory systems to gain intelligence information, according to a high-level official at the agency.
Judicial Watch learned about the Mexican cartel drone incursions during a recent visit to the southern border and specifically while interviewing federal officials at the CBP Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas. Judicial Watch is further investigating the matter and has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with CBP, the 60,000-member agency charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S., for all records regarding the use of drones by criminal organizations operating along the U.S.-Mexico border for the purpose of surveilling U.S. law enforcement officials or otherwise facilitating illegal activity. The federal public-record request includes, but is not limited to, all information depicting the known or estimated number of instances of the use of such technology, as well as all reports, intelligence assessments, analyses, or similar records related to their use.
Federal officials on the ground tell Judicial Watch that the cartels use the UAV surveillance flights to facilitate human smuggling and drug trafficking. Specifically, they help identify gaps in border coverage and assist the cartels in overwhelming certain areas to create a diversion for moving sensitive or high value loads through alternate border locations. The data analyzed from the confiscated drones has also provided U.S. authorities with other law-enforcement sensitive information that cannot be made public, government sources said, adding that drug cartels started using the devices a few years ago. Brandon Judd, the president of the union representing the nation’s 20,000 Border Patrol agents, told Judicial Watch the drones are also used to smuggle small amounts of drugs into the U.S. “They are dropping fentanyl,” Judd said this week. “They fly into certain locations, drop them to the ground and fentanyl is taken off of them and they take back off into Mexico.” The drones are not military grade, Judd confirmed, but rather “run of the mill” that can be purchased anywhere.
It’s scary to think that these circumstances are in fact real and will continue to come to pass under Biden’s weak border policies. As we can see, Democrats want this to continue to occur as they could care a less about America; their focus is on money and power.
Sources: TheGatewayPundit, Judicial Watch